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For 8 years we have been committed to changing the way women are represented in the media and calling out the limited frameworks we use to talk about some of the most important issues in our lives. We’ve congratulated, thanked and celebrated each other and our community. We’ve tackled the most important issues facing young people today. We have supported important campaigns. We have built an invaluable and dedicated community that has proven young people do give a shit about their destiny.

And we’ve done it with almost no money. For our birthday this year, we are asking that you consider making a donation to support our work. It’s really easy, just click the support us button on the top left of the site or go directly to our paypal. Any amount will help (just think if 2000 people gave us 20 bucks?!). Supporting the invaluable work of feminist blogging is one concrete way to change which voices get heard in the mainstream. If our work is sustainable, it will only be more effective.

Vintage Feministing!

Eight years is a long time to be in the blog eco-system. Feministing comes from humble origins–we were a small blog when Jessica and Vanessa first birthed the site in 2004 and even when I joined in 2005.

Today we boast a readership of over half a million per month. We’ve posted over 12,000 blog posts, our community site has over 3,000. And we have been part of a wave of activism that has changed the game online for how feminist issues are represented, not just virtually, but in the traditional press and on the ground. There are very few young feminists that didn’t get privy to the movement through reading about feminism online.

Also today, there is a vibrant community of feminist blogs, veteran bloggers and new bloggers alike, doing the hard work everyday of making sure the way we frame the issues that impact our life will ultimately work in our favor. And it’s not easy work considering how pervasive “isms” are or the aggressive attack on reproductive rights or the daily battle for citizenship or gay marriage rights to name just a few of the important issues of our time.

And while the work is invaluable, we’ve only seen few mid-size blogs like ours survive without proper financial backing. Feministing is a labor of love–but that love has come at the cost of us working our asses off and blogging between full-time jobs, writing paid articles, consulting gigs and speaking gigs to ensure that there is content ready for you every morning. Our commitment to our community has never wavered.

Getting our support from you, our beloved community, gives us the freedom and flexibility to write about the issues we think are important, to have the conversations that aren’t happening in the mainstream and to continually fight for justice. Blogs have changed the ways our communities are represented in the media–but we have so much more work to do and we can’t do it on our own!

So–send us a birthday present so we can keep bringing you the feminist bad-assery you have learned to expect from us.

And thank you for reading, being part of our community and supporting our work for almost a decade!

Give OUT Day is all about spreading the donations around among orgs doing vital work for queer and trans folks, and there are a number of amazing groups participating who we want to big up.

It’s probably not fundraising best practices to encourage you to donate to organizations other than Feministing today. But we’re all about uplifting the kinds of important work done by participating organizations anyway, and today is no different.

You can visit the Give OUT Day website to check out all the participating orgs. I’m going to shout out a few of my favorites below, but there are plenty more worth supporting. Please donate to as many as you can (including Feministing, of course )!

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Give OUT Day is all about spreading the donations around among orgs doing vital work for queer and trans folks, and there are a number of amazing groups participating who we want to big up.

We also need your help to reach as many people as possible. Please share our fundraising page with your networks via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, email, paper airplane, etc. Use the hashtag #GiveOUTDay to join the conversation with other fundraisers on Twitter today.

Give OUT Day is an excellent opportunity for us as a small, underfunded organization, since we’re eligible for cash prizes if a large number of people donate. Have you been meaning to support Feministing for awhile but haven’t gotten around to it? This would be a great time to do so, as every ...

Give OUT Day — a national day for supporting LGBTQ causes — is today, and Feministing is one of the participating orgs!

Give OUT Day — a national day for supporting LGBTQ causes — is this Thursday, 5/21. We’re excited to announce that — now that Feministing is able to accept tax-deductible donations — we are participating in this major fundraising event for the first time.

And we need your help!

Please click here to donate — you can donate right now even though Give OUT Day is officially Thursday. And please share our fundraising page with your networks via social media, email, shouting about Feministing in the street, etc. Use the hashtag #GiveOUTDay to join the conversation with other fundraisers supporting LGBTQ causes.

Feministing is run on a shoestring budget. Funds are tight, and we need to be bringing in more money ...

Give OUT Day — a national day for supporting LGBTQ causes — is this Thursday, 5/21. We’re excited to announce that — now that Feministing is able to accept tax-deductible donations — we are participating in this ...